Consciousness Quotes
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Consciousness does matter. Matter is secondary. Consciousness is primary. Brain does not do consciousness, consciousness does the brain.
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fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.
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All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances, spring narratives… The photograph… is only the most peremptory of a huge modern accumulation of documentary evidence… which simultaneously records a certain apparent continuity and emphasizes its loss from memory. Out of this estrangement comes a conception of personhood, identity… which, because it cannot be “remembered”, must be narrated.
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Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.
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You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
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To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.
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Donald Trump speaks extemporaneously, often through stream of consciousness, where it doesn't seem to follow a trajectory.
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Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
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I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.
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I think there needs to be a general consciousness raising among consumers. So many consumers aren't aware of the backstory. They see the end product in the supermarket but don't know all the steps that it took to get it there, who helped to get the food there.
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Consciousness is a disease.
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I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.
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If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
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Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.
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I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.
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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
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The unconscious is our best collaborator.
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The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
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The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.
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We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's going on. But we also need people on the streets pounding the pavement to make a significant and dramatic appearance to suggest that what's going on here is unacceptable.
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Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness
